Новости за 24.04.2018

On a voice vote, the Senate approved Paul Nakasone for one of the nation's top intelligence posts. They also approved his military promotion to general.

Every year on the anniversary — including this past December — retired Air Force Col. Andrew Kowalski dutifully returned to the air base, one of the sites devastated in the Japanese attack that catapulted America into World War II.

The Fighting Falcon was diverted to Lake Havasu City Municipal Airport at about 10:35 a.m. local time during a routine training flight, according to a statement from Luke Air Force Base. The Air Force declined to explain why the jet was diverted, but the incident was described as an “emergency landing.”

An Air Force pilot was in good condition Tuesday after ejecting from an F-16C fighter jet that crashed as it attempted to land at a small municipal airport in western Arizona along the state’s border with California, Air Force officials said.

A former U.S. military training site in Okinawa Prefecture provided a precious refuge for a critically endangered bat unseen on the prefecture’s main island for 22 years.

America's favorite all-night, comfort food institution has humble origins. Two friends with an idea — a 24-hour restaurant.

There’s a reason the original “Star Wars” movie was filmed in the deserts of southern Tunisia. This stark, remote landscape looks like another planet.

From the outside, it looks like an ordinary commercial warehouse, only much bigger, about the size of two super Walmarts. Inside it's dark except when motion sensors are triggered. When the lights come on, hundreds of thousands of shrink-wrapped boxes of medicines emerge from the gloom, stacked on shelves nearly five stories high.

Like nearly everyone in his adopted hometown, Jay Kornegay has been swept up in the stunning success of the Vegas Golden Knights. The phenomenon is unprecedented in the four major sports, an expansion team winning its division, and topping that with last week’s first-round sweep of the Kings. There’s a hitch, however, for Kornegay.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he still supported Rear Adm. Ronny Jackson as his nominee for Department of Veterans Affairs secretary, but discouraged the White House physician from continuing in what he called an “ugly” and “disgusting” confirmation process.

What happened in the Boston sports market this weekend — to the Bruins, to the Celtics, to the Red Sox, to Rob Gronkowski — is mindful of another market. As in the stock market.

As lawmakers wrangle over the next step in an ongoing debate over creating a so-called Space Corps, top Air Force officials told a Senate panel on Tuesday that China’s innovations in space are among their top worries.

Summer starts early this year in Hollywood with the potentially record-breaking release of “Avengers: Infinity War” Thursday, and the marquee Marvel superheroes couldn’t be coming at a better time.

Two years after her father was killed in Iraq, Jervon Lemon received a phone call from Cynthia Kim, co-founder of Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation, with an unexpected offer. “She said, ‘We want to pay for your undergraduate education.’"

Some of the movies hitting the silver screen this summer.

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt is expected to propose a rule Tuesday that would establish new standards for what science could be used in writing agency regulations, according to individuals briefed on the plan.

Facebook has revealed for the first time just what, exactly, is banned on its service in a new Community Standards document released on Tuesday. It's an updated version of the internal rules the company has used to determine what's allowed and what isn't, down to granular details such as what, exactly, counts as a "credible threat" of violence.

Despite all the attention that concertgoers, music acts and promoters have brought to the Coachella Valley, none of it has improved the lives of the Latinos who make the region run the rest of the year.

The trick will be to create rules that foster fair play without trampling the entrepreneurial spirit that’s fueling this dynamic industry.

Senate lawmakers postponed the confirmation hearing for Rear Adm. Ronny Jackson, the nominee for Department of Veterans Affairs secretary, amid an investigation into allegations of his conduct as the White House physician.

Carnegie Mellon University will hire a researcher from the Library of Congress to help it decode a collection that includes two WWII German Enigma machines.

The Food and Drug Administration announced Tuesday that it is conducting a nationwide, undercover "blitz" to crack down on the sale of e-cigarettes — particularly the hugely popular Juul products — to children and teenagers by regular and online retailers.

His capitulation alters the balance of power between the Justice Department and the Hill and makes it substantially more difficult for department officials to resist future congressional interference in active, politically charged investigations.

The German government has been paying about $1,400 a month to a man who once allegedly guarded Osama bin Laden.